Comicopera

Comicopera
Studio album by Robert Wyatt
Released	October 8, 2007 (2007-10-08)
Genre	Progressive rock, experimental rock, jazz
Length	1:00:15
Label	Domino Records
Producer	Robert Wyatt
Professional reviews
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Robert Wyatt chronology
Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th September 1974 (2005) Comicopera (2007) –

Comicopera is an album by Robert Wyatt released on 8 October 2007, available on both CD and double vinyl formats (the vinyl's fourth side contains no music and has a poem etched into its surface). It is Wyatt's first release on the Domino Records label. It features many other musicians, including Brian Eno, Paul Weller, Gilad Atzmon and Phil Manzanera, and was recorded in Wyatt's house and Manzanera's recording studio. The song Del Mondo is a cover from Ko de mondo, the debut album of Italian post-punk band Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti.^[1]

The album was voted by Wire magazine as best of the year in 2007.^[2]

Track listing

Act One: Lost in Noise

1. "Stay Tuned" (Anja Garbarek) – 3:49
2. "Just as You Are" (Alfreda Benge, Wyatt) – 4:21
3. "You You" (Alfreda Benge, Wyatt) – 4:22
4. "A.W.O.L." (Alfreda Benge, Wyatt) – 2:56
5. "Anachronist" (Wyatt) – 3:28

Act Two: The Here and the Now

1. "A Beautiful Peace" (Wyatt, Brian Eno) – 2:27
2. "Be Serious" (Wyatt) – 2:56
3. "On the Town Square" (Wyatt) – 5:26
4. "Mob Rule" (Wyatt) – 2:16
5. "A Beautiful War" (Wyatt, Brian Eno) – 2:40
6. "Out of the Blue" (Alfreda Benge, Wyatt) – 3:41

Act Three: Away With the Fairies

1. "Del Mondo" (Ferretti, Zamboni, Maroccolo, Magnelli, Canali) – 3:29
2. "Cancion de Julieta" (Federico García Lorca, Wyatt) – 7:32
3. "Pastafari" (Orphy Robinson) – 4:37
4. "Fragment" (Alfreda Benge, Wyatt) – 1:38
5. "Hasta Siempre Comandante" (Carlos Puebla) – 4:37

Personnel

• Robert Wyatt – voice, piano, percussion, keyboard, trumpet, cornet, pocket trumpet, old metronome, karenotron (voice of Karen Mantler), Enotron (voice of Brian Eno), monicatron (voice of Monica Vasconcelos)
• Brian Eno – keyboards, effects
• Seaming To – voice, clarinet
• Annie Whitehead – trombone, baritone horn
• Yaron Stavi – bass violin
• Monica Vasconcelos – voice
• Paul Weller – guitar
• Gilad Atzmon – saxophones, tenor saxophone, clarinet
• Jamie Johnson – bass guitar
• Dave Sinclair – piano
• Phil Manzanera – guitar
• Del Bartle – guitar
• Orphy Robinson – steelpan, vibraphone
• Chucho Merchan – bass violin
• Maurizio Camardi – saxophones
• Alfonso Santimone – piano, keyboards
• Alessandro Fedrigo – bass guitar
• Paolo Vidaich – percussion
• Gianni Bertoncini – drums

Preceded by Burial by Burial

The Wire's Record of the Year 2007

Succeeded by Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age by Broadcast

References

1. ^ Chris Jones, A national treasure makes another peerless album, BBC, October 5, 2007.
2. ^ The Wire 2007 listing.

External links

• Robert Wyatt Conducts Comicopera With Eno, Weller Pitchfork Media
• Robert Wyatt, "Comicopera" Brainwashed
• http://www.dominorecordco.com/site/?page=news&artistID=245 Domino Records info